Travel Award

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that Vaccines will be granting the Travel Award to two junior scientists. The applications will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee consisting of senior scholars from the Vaccines Editorial Board.

This award provides financial support for the winners to attend an international conference on laboratory and clinical vaccine research, utilization, and immunization to be held in 2025, in order to hold a presentation, present a poster, or both.

The winners (two awardees) will each be awarded CHF 500 and an electronic certificate.

Please submit your applications for the Vaccines 2025 Travel Award online by 01 November 2024. Prizes will be awarded at the end of January 2025 and announced on the Vaccines website.

Kind regards,
Vaccines Editorial Office

 
Vaccines Travel Award
 
Winner announcement: 31 January 2025

Eligibility and Requirements

– Postdoctoral fellows or PhD students.
– Plans to attend an international conference in 2025 (oral presentation or poster).

List of Documents for Application

– Information of the conference the applicant is planning to attend and the abstract that will be submitted.
– Curriculum Vitae and list of publications.
– Justification letter describing the focus of the research (max. 800 words).
– Letter of recommendation from the supervisor, research director, or department head, which also confirms the applicant’s status as a postdoctoral fellow/PhD student.
 
Past Winners
 
Year: 

Winner

Alessandro Pardini
University Hospital of Bern, Switzerland
Xin Du
University of California San Diego School of Medicine, CA, USA

Award Committee

Dr. Ralph Tripp Chairman
Univ Georgia
Prof. Michael Bukrinsky
The George Washington University
Dr. Zixin Wang
JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Dr. Haval Shirwan
University of Louisville

Winner

Alexandra Dvorscek
Monash University, Australia
Eduard Puente-Massaguer
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY, USA

Award Committee

Dr. Ralph Tripp Chairman
Univ Georgia
Prof. Vasso Apostolopoulos
RMIT University
Prof. Michael Bukrinsky
The George Washington University
Prof. Antonella Caputo
Department of Chemical, Pharmaceutical and Agricultural Sciences
Prof. Dr. Nancy Agmon Levin
SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER

Winner

Kyle O'Donnell
National Institutes of Health, MT, USA
Irene González Domínguez
Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY, USA

Award Committee

Dr. Ralph Tripp Chairman
Univ Georgia
Dr. Olga Borges
University of Coimbra
Dr. David Benfield
Prof. François Meurens
Swine and Poultry Infectious Diseases Research Center, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Montreal
Dr. Toru Takimoto
University of Rochester Medical Center

Winner

Hee Chun Chung
Seoul National University, Korea
Alejandro Marin Lopez
Yale University, CT, USA

Award Committee

Dr. Ralph Tripp Chairman
Univ Georgia
Dr. Marzena Pazgier
Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences
Dr. Enric Mateu
Prof. Dr. JOSEPH BANOUB
DFO-SCIENCE BRANCH AND MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY

Winner

Carly May Bliss
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY, USA
Joshua Gillard
Radboudumc, The Netherlands
Adam Cheng
University of Minnesota, MN, USA
Sasha Larsen
Infectious Disease Research Institute, WA , USA

Award Committee

Prof. Dr. Nirbhay Kumar Chairman
George Washington University
Prof. Andrew Pekosz
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Dr. Romain Paillot
Dr. Yoshihiko Hirohashi
Dept of Pathology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine.

Winner

Lynda Coughlan
Mount Sinai at IcahnSchool of Medicine, NY, USA
João Conniot
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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